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Linear accelerator 4 will deliver particles to the Proton-Synchrotron Booster at more than triple the energy the current linac achieves
Linac 4 has begun testing its RFQ module. This is the first stage of testing for the Linac 2 successor
The CERN Accelerator School (CAS) and the Slovak University of Technology jointly organized a course on ion sources in Senec, Slovakia
A 10% decrease in the LHC's peak luminosity can be explained by changing bunch intensities. Jan Uythoven reports
A CERN-Fermilab team has developed a new magnet that will be a valuable asset to the HL-LHC, the next step of for LHC machine
CERN is working together with an Italian company to develop superconducting cables that can function at temperatures of up to 25 K (-248°C)
The African School of Physics was held in Ghana this summer, where lecturers from CERN shared their expertise with 50 motivated students
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has delivered over twice as many collisions to the ATLAS and CMS experiments this year as it did in the whole of 2011
Heavy-ion experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will present their latest results at the Quark Matter 2012 conference
Today marks 100 years since Victor Hess made last of series of balloon flights leading to the discovery of cosmic rays